I rounded... it was actually something like 6:04AM :)
- Thomas Day <tday6_at_csc.com> wrote:
>
> 6 AM --- A new shift comes on. Or is that when the janitor shows up
> and
> needs a place to plug in his vacuum cleaner?
>
> I am always suspicious of hardware/system failures that fall right on
> the
> hour.
>
> I once had an Oracle database on an AIX system. Every morning, when
> I came
> in, it was just starting up. Turns out that the SA like to have a
> "clean"
> system so at the start of his shift he would hit the RESET button on
> his
> RS/6000. No warning or notification, no graceful shutdown, just
> punch the
> big red button.
>
> He also thought that backing up the entire database once a week would
> take
> too long so he would back up one RAID device every other day. With
> three
> RAID devices that gave him a weekly backup.
>
> I finally got him educated but he didn't pass it on to his subs. He
> was in
> Jamaica (mon) for a week when we had a power outage. The UPS worked
> and we
> were able to keep going but two days later we lost all the files on
> our
> RAID devices. They located him in Jamaica, flew him back, he walked
> into
> the computer run, flipped the switch on the RAID devices' UPS, and
> they
> flew him back to Jamaica. His sub had reset the computer's UPS but
> had
> ignored that blinking red light over in the corner.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rachel
>
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> it's not a hardware problem. the fact that the filesystem failed at
> 6AM
> this morning is merely a collective hallucination
>
> yes, it went down hard. My database was not on it, I had insisted
> they
> move all the files. They didn't move the Oracle binaries though
> ("there
> is no hardware problem") so we are down anyway, while they reinstall
> Oracle to a different filesystem
>
> I'm getting tired of recovering this database. Over and over and over
> again. I've got this recovery scenario down pat, let's move on to a
> new
> one to try
>
>
> --- Stephen Lee <Stephen.Lee_at_DTAG.Com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Of course, we took the EXACT SAME BACKUP, restored it to another
> > > filesystem and have NO corruption in the database. But it can't
> > > possibly be hardware problems. It's just Oracle playing games
> with
> > my
> > > mind.
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